see this final storm as nothing ve… the world; there are so many more important t… consider. see this final storm as nothing ve…

I awaken about noon and go out to… in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot

Joyce found a job with the county, the county Police Department, of all things. I was living with a cop! But at least it was during the day, which gave me a little rest from those fondl...

big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds

I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls

I hear them outside: “does he always type this late?” “no, it’s very unusual.” “he shouldn’t type this

I was editing a little magazine at the time, The Laxative Approach. I had two co-editors and we felt that we were printing the best poets of our time. Also some of the other kind. One o...

they’d come around and they’d ask “you finished your 2nd novel yet?” “no.”

places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you… that?

But then it began raining again. The Stone had me out on a thing called Sunday Collection, and if you’re thinking of church, forget it. You picked up a truck at West Garage and a clipbo...

There was another German Shepherd. It was hot summer and he came BOUNDING out of a back yard and then LEAPED through the air. His teeth snapped, just missing my jugular vein. “OH JESUS!...

knew you were a bad-ass,” he said. you sat in the back of Art class a… you never said anything. then I saw you in that brutal figh… with the guy with the dirty yellow